Fiction. African & African American Studies. "If you speak, you die, and if you remain silent, you die. So, speak and die."--Tahar DjaoutAlgeria, just after Independence. The inhabitants of a small Ka
This elegant, haunting novel takes us deep into the world of bookstore owner Boualem Yekker. He lives in a country being overtaken by the Vigilant Brothers, a radically conservative party that seeks t